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GoPokes83

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  1. I’d feel like such a fucking loser if I was one of these guys playing my 6th or 7th year of eligibility in college football. Grow up. 

    Kind of agree, but being on a football scholarship at any Power 5 school is probably a pretty sweet life. I’d probably try and Van Wilder it too.
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  2. More on me, but she told me she wanted to start listening to Brown Sounds at night to help her go to sleep in under 7 minutes after seeing it on some bullshit commercial and I asked her if she meant like toilet sounds? WTF is wrong with me, am I a first grader? And if she wants to go to sleep that fast all I have to do is let her know I’d enjoy some sex and she’s out like a light! Or at least is pretty good at pretending to be.

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  3. Spot on my wrist that just wouldn’t heal was smaller than a dime 2 months ago and has grown to silver dollar since then. Dr took one look at it, said skin cancer and to expect a call from the Dermatologist very soon. At least it’s lefty.

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  4. I grew up watching those guys on WGN or some other local Chicago station.  Their TV show ended up becoming very commercialized and borderline silly.  But as my father used to point out to when I was young, their written columns were incredibly written. 
    Most people don't remember that Siskel was a Yale humanities graduate, wrote for the U.S. Army Defense Information School, and Playboy.  Quite a range.  His movie takes were often for shit, but he died before I really got into cinema anyway.  But I look back on his prose and style, and the man's writing and intellectual breakdown of the reflections of film on society were pretty damn impressive.  Ebert was a University of Chicago PhD candidate before he got into being a critic and writer.  Again, most Americans don't know that UoC is arguably the best school in the nation not in the Ivy League or named after Leyland, Jr.  Ebert had the better taste, or at least for me anyways.  He had a softer side than Siskel, and I always loved the way he understood fellow-Chicagoan, John Hughes.  He, too, could frame an argument on paper like very few (even won a Pulitzer). 
    The two of them could have been almost anything given their intellectual prowess, but they ended up embracing movies because of how they felt and believed it was the most contemporary reflection of America in their lifetimes.  More than journalism, TV, politics, music, art, religion, etc.  And they were absolutely correct, just ahead of their time.  And it didn't help they really cut their teeth/"get big" in the 1980's when American movies were at arguably their lowest point of cultural significance---and we were as a country overall at our lowest point culturally (until the last 8 years or so).  And their show was stylized to pit them against one another and a glorified trailer for major studios.  But my father called maybe 10 people smart in my whole life, and he considered Roger Ebert to be absolutely brilliant (primarily off camera, and they met a few times in real life).  
    Americans consider high cinema to be the newest Larry the Cable Guy picture or Deuce Bigalow prequel.  Siskel and Ebert saw this dumbing-down of America with movies being a leading indicator.  The harbingers of our demise.  But yeah, to your point---they missed quite frequently.  But their niche was and is remains quite unique.  I kinda miss 'em.

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    Tell me more about this Deuce Bigalow prequel…

    At the Movies was a must watch for me back in the day.
  5. Fucking pussy! So glad I'm not a zoomer. That generation is lazy and has no work ethic. Kid needs to grow the fuck up. You're there to do a job and not play or goof off. That's why it's called work. Also 8 hour shift ain't shit. 

    He’ll be in treatment for PTSD over this.

  6. 2. My wife thinks if I shut off the house heating/cooling for 1 month, it will cost more to bring it back to regular temp, than keeping it at that temp for 30 days with the house empty...

    Of course it won’t, but mold/mildew in the summer in a non A/C house without ventilation can be a real issue.
  7. Only sucker involved is dumbass charging INTO a guy who just laid out another dude in his line of sight like it was nothing.  I make it a habit not to walk into a guy flooring people in public head on with a shitty look on my face.  

    I was speaking more of the first guy who looked completely unaware that the guy had any intention to swing. I’m guessing the second guy must have been shouting “Worldstar!” or something to set the dude off but it’s hard to tell without sound.
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